Only the Imperial System Makes Sense (Score 1)

The foot is NOT based on the size of anyone's body part. It is EXACTLY 1/32 of the distance that ANY object falls in EXACTLY one second. The Second as a unit of measure has been around since Babylonian days and we still use it. Many people don't know that the original metric system had a metric second which nobody, not even the French, use. One Hundred degrees in a circle. Really! The system of measure used by the US dates back to Newton and the Royal Academy and is the only system that makes sense as it is based on Universal Gravitation. There is no standard "foot" on display anywhere, as there is with the meter. If the French loose their reference copy of the meter all is lost, since the meter is a completely arbitrary unit of measure. Multiply or divide it by 10 all you want. Arbitrary is still arbitrary. Anyone can make a perfect foot measure. Break out your astronomical toolkit, and observe the second. Once you develop a measure of time and calibrate it to the motion of the earth as it rotates in space, you will have your reference second. Next drop anything and measure the distance it falls in one second. Divide that distance by folding it in half five times and you have a perfect foot. PERFECT. Voila! And the Fahrenheit system is the span of temperatures required to freeze water at sea level depending on the degree of saturation of salt in the water. Zero degrees is the temperature required to freeze fully saturated salt water. Thirty two degrees is the temperature required to freeze pure water. You have two perfect reference points for temperature, the rest is interpolated or extrapolated. I am a degreed engineer myself. Nothing is more pleasurable than physics exercises calculated in the Newtonian system that we call Imperial. It still boggles my mind that people would want to use anything other than foot pound seconds. When God designed the universe He set acceleration due to gravity to EXACTLY 32 feet per second squared. God doesn't use Metric, and neither shall I.